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1~~ A~. ern every membor, for the sake even of his own interest, an ap peal seldom made in vain, to support them. Mr. HUME had received a letter from a Borough, offering him a seat if he would undertake to lay out 80001. That was 5/. a piles for the electors, and ISOOI. to be spent. Mr. H. GURNEY would vote for the previous question. He perfectly well knew that no man could became a Member of Par liament, without paying for it either in meal or in malt.-.:-(Loud and general arils of " No, no.")--Ise should have been glad if the Nobis Lord had brought forward a motion to make the Bribery Laws more reasonable. For, as they stood now, no eandidatii for a large place could tell whether he violated them or not. Mr. Alderman WOOD thought the assertion of the Honourable Member perfectly unwarranted. He had been three times re turned, and had never spent one shilling except for advertisements and the expellee of his committee rooms. The lion. Member bad pairLa bad compliment to his own constituents, rind from the warmth tVith whteh he spoke it might be inferred that their price Was pretty high.—(A laugh.) Mt. Sergeant ONSLOW made a similar disclaimer of leaving spent money at his election. Sir R. WILSON had been elected without expellee by a nu mtrouri body of muitituente. He would support the resolutions. He had received a letter like that of the Hon. Member for Mon trose; he supposed it was a circular. Sir M. W. RIDLEY suggested, that the best way for every man to repel the imputation of the lion. Member, would be to vote for the resolution. • General Gascovri it and Alr. F. Palates, severally declared the. they had been elected without expense. Mr. T. WILSON defended the purity of the City of London. lie thought the letters spoken of by two the Hon. Members were intended as a hoax. They would not otherwise have been cent to Hon. Gentlemen so celebrated for their attachment to the purity of election and to every thing good. They were probably intended to deceive the House, like a numerous class of Petitions presented during the S e ssions, which pretended to come from dif ferent parts of the . aountry, whilst they in fact emanated from a particular Society.—(Quostion, question.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL could not go to a division without thanking the Hon. Member who had supplied so strong an argu ment in support of the motion. He mentioned the case of West winger as an exception to the general practice. The substance of hie resolutions had been before the House during the whole of the Session in the shape of a Bill. But he had hail no opportunity of bringing it forward. Mr. H. GURNEY explained. Mr. GRENFELL supported the Resolutions. The House then divided on the First Resolution, when there appeared to be— - fist - For the Resolution - Against it - - 62 When the SPEAKSI gave the casting vote in favour of the Re rietittion. 'The second Resolution, to the effect that the truth of the matters contained in the said petition should he referred to a SelectCommittew of thirteen Members, to be chosen by lot, and of two Members to be chosen by the House, and that they shall report their opinion, to gether with the evidence to the House, was then put and carried without a division. charter, his Britannic Majesty consents to grant the same feel& ties and privileges, in all respects, to the subjects of his Swedish Majesty, as are or may be enjoyed, under any Treaty or Act of Parliament, by the subjects or eitiseas of the most favoured Na tion ; subject to the laws, rules, regulation*, and restrictions, which are or may be applicable to the ships and subjects of any other foreign country enjoying the like facilities and privileges of trading with the said Dominions. 9. The High Contracting Parties engage that all articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of their respective dominions, shall be subject to no higher duties, upon their admission from the one country into the other, than are paid by the like articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign coun try ; and that no prohibition or restraint shall be imposed upon the importation into the one country from the other, or upon the exportation from the one country to the other, of any such ar ticles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of either of the said States, which shall not equally extend to all other Nations ; and, generally, that in all matters and regulations of trade and naviga tion, each of the High Contracting Parties will treat the other upon the footing of the most favoured Nation. 10. In consideration of the advantages and facilities which the navigation and commerce of the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway will enjoy, under the present Convention, and the Ast of Parliament of the bth July, 1825, his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway consents that, from and after this date, vessels of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall he allowed to import into Sweden any merchandise or goods of European origin, which are likewise permitted to be imported into Sweden from any port whatever, with the exception of the following articles :—Salt, Hemp, Flax, Oil of all kinds, Grain of all kinds, Wine, Tobacco, Salt or dried Fish, Wool, and Stuffs of all kinds, which, as before, shall be imported into Sweden only, in vessels of Sweden and Norway, or in vessels of the countries of which such articles are the produce. The said excepted articles shall, however, be 'allowed to be im ported into Sweden in vessels of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland proceeding direct from some port of the United Kingdom, provided such articles shall have been pre viously landed and warehoused in a port of the United King dom, after having been imported thither from the country of their origin. These stipulations in favour of British Commerce shall remain in force during the continuance of the present Convention, and as far as the Act of Parliament of the sth July, 1825, shall continue to grant to the navigation and commerce of Sweden equivalent facilities of the same nature. 11. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, mutually agree, that no higher or other duties shall be levied in any of their dominions upon any personal property of their respective subjects, on the removal of the same from the do minions of their said Majesties, reciprocally,..either upon the in heritance of such property, or otherwise, than are or shall be pay able in each state, upon the like property, when removed- by a subject of such State, respectively. 12. The present Convention shall he in force for the term of ten years, from the date hereof ; and further, until the end of twelve months after either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its intentions to terminate the same ; sash of the High Contracting Parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other, ut the end of the said term of ten years ; and it is hereby agreed between them, that, at the expiration of twelve months after such notice shall have been received by either party from the other, this Convention, and all the provisions thereof, shall altogether cease and determine. 18. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifica tions shall be exchanged at London within six weeks from the date hereof, or sooner, if possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at London, the eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. L. S.) GEORGE CANNING. (L. S.) STIERNELD. L.S.) WILLIAM HUSKISSON. SALE OF SEATS. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had on a former occasion presented a Petition front a gentleman of the name of Day, which alleged that by a clause in a Marriage Settlement the seats for a certain Borough were to be always sold, and that this clause had been complied with at every successive election from 1790, the date of the settlement, to 1819. He had not then moved that the Petition be printed, have some doubts as to the facts. These having been removed, he should now move that the said Petition be printed.— Ordered. EMIGBATION. §ir JOHN MA KW ELL presented a Petition from certain poor persons of Balkershaw, in the County of Benfeewi praying for a grant of money to enable them to emigrate. Before he brought up the Petition, he begged to ask the - Right Hon. Secretary, whether it was in the contemplation of Government to grant relief from the public purse, to the distressed portion of the Immunity, and also whether they had any plan to promote emigration? Mr. Secretary PEEL--In reply to the first question, could only repeat the answer made the other night, by his Right Hon. Friend, to a similar question. With respect to the second ques tion of the Hon. Member, he could only say, that a Committee had been sitting on the subject, whose report had been just laid on .the table. Be. had not yet had the opportunity of directing iris particular attrattion to that report.....-Ordered to he printed. SCOTCH, BANKS. On tl , .e motion, that the Report of the Committee on Scotch and Vah Banking, he laid on the table, idr. TIERNEY adverted to the recommendation of his Ma , jesty's Speech, to put the currency upon a better footing, and recapitulated the various proceedings which had been adopted in pursuance of that recommendation. They proceeded with great vigour at first, with a vigour even beyond the law. They soon, however, began to relax. The Bank of England was to have the the power of issuing ono and two-pound notes till the latter part of the year, and he had no doubt that they would exercise it as extensively as poseible. They legislated for England, and indeed outrun in action the speed of legislation; 'all without inquiry. They went on very well in the progress of the Bill till they crime to Scotland ; of Ireland he would not speak, as nothing had 'been determined. But with respect to Scotland the case was 'very different. He believed that ames the rebellion of 174 b. there was never such a combustion in Scotland. Nothing co o '..d equal the firmness of Scotch Members in support of the Jill at first, but their firmness in opposition to it afterwards— when it touched themselves. He wished he had eloquence to de scribe the commotion that was created in Scotland, for it was a subject of eloquence. As it was, be would only refer for a de scription of it to the writings of the Great Unknown. In one of his poems there was a part, under the title of the Gathering, in which every man throughout the country was brought, on a signal given, to his post in half an hour. Such was precisely the case in the present instance. The warmest language had been em ployed, and even menaces had not been spared.--(Some Hon. Member here made an observation, and there arose a loud cry of id Hear, hear !")—lt was, he knew, far from the disposition of his Hon. Friend : to interrupt any body, and particularly in anger, but he would tell hint what he meant by menace. Something had been said about the Scottish claymore.' This certainly sounded *ether alarming to the ear of an Englishman, who very seldom law such a thing, except at the play. The situa tion of Scotland was now very different from what it hail been; great wealth had poured into the country from India and else where. The system of cash credit, on which so in}tch stress had been laid in the Committee was not peculiar to Scotland. The Right lion. Gentleman enlarged much on the injustice end par tiality of making a distinction between England and Scotland.— The report would produce a new discussion of the whole cur xency question, which he had flattered himself was at an end. -It one a manifesto in favour of paper against gold, and as circume somas were likely to operate in its favour it might turn the cur rent of popularity in favour of paper. He expressed his terror of a system of inconvertible paper currency. He had re.. jected all new-fashioned theories, and uniformly adhered to gold, or paper convertible into gold, at the pleasure of the holder.— The Right Honourable Gentleman contended, that the eanctiou given by this Report to the Scotch system, would lead to a dan gerous attachment to its principlee, and then to place the cur rency of the country upon a metallic basis would be utterly im possible. , Under such circumstances, how should we be able to meet France with her sound, metallic currency,' in case of any rupture with that country? He complained that Lord Liver pool had not obtained suffieient information upon this subject before he brought - forward his measures, and then have stood to therm Give him a Government who would first mature their measures and be satisfied of their propriety, and then abide by their fate. Ile should then know what it was be was railed upon to s upport, and be able to satisfy his own mind of its claim there to, He perfectly concurred with Lord Liverpool in the design Of eetabliehing Banking Companies. But now the Bill for effecting it hail passed, it was found 'utterly inipoeasible that any Joint Stock B a nking Company could he formed under it. The Bill was now A month old, and those who brotight it in had been holding meet» jugs to discover by what menus it could be evaded. ' He under otood that such a discovery had at least been made, and the Banks were to he established under an evasion of the Act. He had b een induced to make these obseivations with a view of justifying himself for giving his support to the early measures of the Go vernment upon this important subject. From their declarations, an d the principles which they professed, he never expected to see uch a report as this receive their sanetion. Ile " o offer no motion, ss the Report was not before the House My only oh jee* raid the Right Hon. Gentleman, was to set Myself right with the count nr--and havin done 't ry.—levavi Mtam manta so, sta& detain the Woe no longer." Lord Liverpool was a man for whom he, entertained great ersonal respect, and he only wished that he possessed better nerves, and not so much raihneisi. that as chairman of the Committee Mr. S ecre t a ry PEEL said , 'upon whose report the Righ t lion. Gentle. uu ‘ in . had animadverted_ ire roe to vindicate the conclusions to Which the C olm o i ttee h o t - some, arid to reply to the charges preferred against his colleague, . Lord' Liverpool, and the rest of the Government. And first, m rispoct to the conclusions of time report, it did appertrtobim to be a moil singular proceeding an the part of the Right Hon. Gentle- Mari to make lama the s tet of such rUdake lam the report ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. , As it may sometimes happen that a Swedish or Norwegian vessel trading to the possessions held by the British East India Company in the East Indies, .under the Eighth Article of. the Convention of this date, may find it expedient to dispoee of the whole or part of her cargo, on her homeward-bound ,voyage, in other ports than those of Sweden and Norway, it is hereby agreed, that any such vessel may proceed, with such cargo, to Any foreign place or port whatsoever, not being within the limits of the Eaet India Company's Charter, and excepting the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its dependencies. The present Additional Article shall have the same force and validity as if it were inserted, word for word, in the Convention signed this flay. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time. In witness, whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at London, the eighteenth day of March, in the year of oar Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six., ) GEORGE CANNING. (L.S.) WILLIAM I:IIiSKISSON. . (L. S.) STIERNELD, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. His Majesty's ship Athol, Captain Murray, arrived at the Caps of Good Hope from Sierra Leone, bound 'to India, captured on ker passage the Brazilian vessel Active, with 168 slaves on board, Which she sent into Sierra Leone. The Lively, Captain Elliot, C. B. arrived at Plymouth on the 22d ; and Adventure, and Beagle, sailed on the 28d for South America: Mr. Wheeler, Midshipman of the Coast Blockade, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, for his conduct against a party of snmug►glers. Mr. John Wilson has been appointed Supernumerary Surgeon of the Java. Mr. Robert Maxwell, has been appointed Supernumerary As sistant-Surgeon of the Victory ; Mr. James M'Alister, Assistant— Surgeon of the Martial; Mr. Graham Acton, supernumerary Assistant-Surgeon of the Ramillies. LLOYDS'.—(Turs DAY.) DEAL, MAT 26..—Wind 6.E.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the St. Vincent Planter, Boyd, from Jamaica ; Africa, Skelton, from the Isle of France; Cognac, Barton, from Cork. Remain, the Brilliant, Pattison, from Honduras; Favourite, Royal, from Havanneh, and the Indian Queen, Baker,frorn New York, the latter with loss of anchor and cable. Passed at the back of the Goodwin, the Two Brothers, Meek, from Bahia; Effort, Parker, from Charleston, and Fortuna, Ebert, from Oporto. POILTSUOUTH, MAT 26.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Ibis, Smith, from Oporto ; His Majesty's ship Blonde from Plymouth. Passed by the Buckinghamshire, Glaspole, from China, and Peter Proctor, —, from Dominica. Sailed the Morley, Halliday, for Madras and Bengal. PLIMOUTII, MAT 25.—Wind N.E.—Arrived his Majesty'. ship Romnay, from —, off the port ; the Pearls, Wilson, front London, for South America. FALMOUTH, MAT 25.—Wind N.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Or feur, from Calipola ; Louisa, Blake, from Cork; and the Mar shall, Brisk, from London ; off the port, the Louisa, Robertson, from Cantpeachy ; and Julia, Sargeant, from St. Domingo. Dovea, MAY 26.—Off the port, the Maria, Vanderburg, from Batavia; Marianne, Schmidt, from Oporto • Orion, Vick, from Baltimore; Neptune, Kogan, from Rio; and the Ariadne, Sur.. gauge:), from St. Thomas's. NORTH AND SOUTH 'AMERICAN COFFEE-HOUSE, (Tilts nay.) The Washington, Craig, and Ceres, Rees, from Liverpool, si Charleston. Th. Indian Queen, Baker, of and from New York for Bre men, got entangled with the Go odwin Sand yesterday morning, but was extricated by boats from Deal, with lois of anchor and cable, and brought into the Downi. The Draper, of and fro m Baltimore, for Rotterdam, pawedby Deal May 26 ; all well ; sailed from Baltimore the 21st ult. The Dutch ship Yrow Maria, Captain Van Dubtargh, an d the Dutch ship Wilhelmina, Verloop, both from Batavia for Rotter dam, passed . by Deal May 26. The Dutch ship Maria Hengenitar, Rymbend, from Surinam, for Rotterdam, passed by the Downs the 26th of May. The s hip Tartar, of Boston, Capt. Thou. R. Gregory, from Manilla, passed the Downs the 26th May. The Favourite, Royal, from Havannah, for St. Pitersburg h, ar rived in t h e Downs. The following vessels bound to England had arrived at St. 'He lena, viz. —Princess Charlotte of Wales, Biden ; David Scott, Th o rnhill ; and Eliza, Sutton, from Bengal ; Lord Ilungarfordv Ta lb er t, from Madras; and Mired, Lamb, from Bombay. Arrived off the Start the John, --, from the Mauritus; in the Downs the Salmis, Hearn, from Jamaica. S t . Hetes*, APRIL S. Eliza, Sutton, arrived to-day from Bengal in '7l tlaYev experienced a severe hurricane off the Maurithis, and three days afterwards fell iu with a Dutch vessel which had lost het formula ad bowsprit. House of Lords in the Bill relating to the letting out the Bonded was not before the House, and it was impossible that any judg ment could be formed Of its merits. He requested the House to suspend that judgment until they had an opportunity of reading the report, and said that he had never sat in a Committee more determined to do its duty according to the evidence laid before it. The Right Hon. Gentleman had said that the adoption of the R e port w as A departure from the principles and the declarations of the Government, asserted in the early part of the Session. That he denied.. And he would ask the Right Hon. Gentleman when any declaration had been made by the Government which said that the measure to come into operation in this country, in 1829, should be extended to Scotland ? This incon sistencyt eyi year' and contempt of principle so loudly complained of by the Right Honourable Gentleman would be neither more nor less than a return to the system which existed up to the year 1797. From the year 1777, the issuing of notes below the sum of 51. was prohibited by law ; and for a century before that there had been practically no small notes in circulation in this country. But during the whole of that period, concurrently with our own metallic circulation, Scotland had small notes, and nothing else. Up to this Session of Parliament, no one had ever proposed that the system of banking in Scotland should be done away. In 1810 a Committee was appointed, at the instance of Mr. Horner, to inquire into the expediency of a resumption of cash payments. That Com mittee sat for many mouths, examined evidence, and made an able Report, the conclusion of which was, that in two years there should be a resumption of Cash Payments. But the Report never suggested that the same measure should be extended to Scotland. The Committee of 1819 in the same manner made a Report, in which they recommended the same measure, but without extending it to Scotland. This Committee took evi dence of the existence of the Scotch small notes, but did not think it necessary for their principle to interfere. Here, then, were the facts of time practice of a century, and of two Com !Masse; sitting upon the subject of the Currency, and not deeming it necessary to interfere. Then let him ask the Right lion. Gentleman upon what public declaration of the Govern ment it appeared that they hail, at any time, made up their minds to such an interference. He would repeat that, his impression was in favour of extending our own system to Scotland, hut as there bad been no inquiry upon the subject in reference to Scot land, his feeling was, that they should not proceed until they had inquired. The Right Hon. Secretary then contended that the letter of Lord Liverpool did not bear the construction put upon it by the Right Hon. Gentleman. To him it appeared to prove a directly contrary opinion, and that his Lordship had never made any such declaration as that attributed to him in the Right Hon. Gentleman's speech. He had said that Lord Liver pool Ought to have made up his miud and supported the mea sure without inquiry. But this had not always been the con duct of the Right Honourable Gentleman. When in 1818, Lord Liverpool, through the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Van.sittart, came down to the House with a proposition for re quiring additional security front Country Bankers, the Right Honourable Gentleman turned round end said that Mr. Pitt himself in the zenith of his power would not have dared to bring in such a Bill .without previous inquiry. But now, when Loyd Liverpool, following the advice of the Right Honourable Gentleman, had proceeded by inquiry, then he turned round and said, " Bring down your measures and lay them upon the table, that I may know what it is 1 am called upon to sup port." The Committee had been fairly constituted, and other Members he had readily added to it, upon the recommendation of those who complained that the interest of the Bankers of Scotland would not be properly represented. The feeling of Scotland was universally in favour of the existing system, but that be confessed he should have disregarded, if upon examina tion he bad found that the general interests of the country called for u change. But what were the facts ? First, the sys tem had existed in the best times of the English currency, without inconvenience. Then, he was asked by the people of Scotland, " Why will you disturb us, and make us adopt your system when we have not felt from our own the incon veniences of which you have complained ?" He had the greatest respect for the English country bankers as a class, and thought they had done much service to the country.— But he could not shut his eyes to the fact, that individuals had abused the present system in a degree for which the affairs of Scotland afforded no parallel. This was proved by the returns, which showed that since the year 1816 there had been only one failure of a Scotch Bank, while in the same period in England there hail been 158. The Report provided that the introduction of Scotch paper money into this country should he prevented by the passing a law which rendered it penal. If this law should fail in its effects, then the question of assimilating the systems would be necessarily reconsidered. It appeared upon their evi dence that if the one pound paper circulation were prohibited, the Scotch Banks would be obliged to give up their Branch Banks in the Highlands, to the great inconveuience of the population.— There was one important peculiarity in the case of Scotland to which he could not shut his eyes—he meant the amount of circu lation. In 1819, the circulation of England was about forty mil lions of Batik of England and Country Bank Paper ; of this 23 or 24 millions consisted of small notes. During the debates of the present Session, the amount of small paper had been calcu lated at about six or seven millions. When he compared this with the amount of small paper circulation in Scotland, he saw that a law to prohibit it altogether might produce consequences, the ex tent of which amid not be foreseen. The total amount of the Scotch circulation was about 8,300,0001. and of that upwards of 2,000,0001. was in paper money below the value of 51. He must city, that whatever might have been his impression at first, when he heard these facts he was afraid to destroy so large a portion of the circulation of that country, until a further trial had been made of its compatibility with our own system. The conclusion, therefore, to which lie came was this :—he was not enamoured of the Scotch system, but under such circumstances he thought it prudent to give it another trial. The respect which he enter tained fur the opinion of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Tierney) made him sorry that the report met his disapproval but either us Chairman of the Committee, or as a Minister, he could assert, that to no act of duty which he had been called upon to perform, did he look back ivith greater satisfaction. Mr. ABERCROMBY said, _that he went into the Committee with the opinion that one system for England and another ibr Scotland was an absurdity. The objection he now had to make to this report wee, that every one of its positions went to confirm that opinion, except its conclusion. No one heel ever ventured to assert, either before the Committee or in that House, that the cash credits in Scotland would be destroyed by the destruction of the one-pound notes, He thought the measure recommended by the report was most unfair and unjust, as giving an undue ad vantage to the Scotch Weaker, ,which those of England did not postmen, and still more unfair and unjust to the principles which the Government had protonic& The Right lion. Gentleman had said that only one bank bad failed in Scotland, and that no cala mities had fallen upon that country front the present system. But the Right Hou. Gentleman' forgot to state the difference in the law which gave the Scotch banks so much greater security. This very circumstance required that there should be it power of con trol exercised over the issues of those banks, because by au over issue they had the power of inflicting the greater hardships upon the poor man by ;naming the price of the necessary articles of life, than if by a sudden failure he lost his one-pound note altogether. The law to prevent the introbetion of the Scotch notes in Eng land would he the most odious and detestable law ever made. They took an imaginary border, which, so help him God, be had often passed without knowing it; and if a note legally issued on the one side were carried on the other without any immoral intention, the party was to be exposed to penalty of the law. Unless the Committee had come to a more decided opinion, they ought not to have made such a report. An argument was put into the hands of practical men, when they said that their principles were un answerable, hut yet unsuited to the circumstances of the country. The real question was, whether Ministers should retrace their steps with regard to England, or whether they should put the currency of Scotland and of this country on the same footing. Mr. J. P. GRANT thought that the difference between the currency of both countries did no injustice to England. For England—whether prudently or imprudently, be would not un dertake to say—was only to be put into its original situation its regarded a metallic situation. But the case was very different with Scotland ; fur in the latter country, during the last eentury its present system had preVitilecl, and in so long a period only two hanks had failed, with a kis to the country not exceeding 341,0001. Indeed all writers on political economy, from Adam Smith down wards; invariably attributed the prosperity of Scotland to its banking system. Captain Gordon, Sir M. Ridley, Mr. Hudson Gurney, Mr. Robertson, Mi. T. Wilson, Mr. Alder Man lieygate, Mr. Ellice, Cripps, and Mr. Maxwell, severally spoke. Mr. 111JSKISSON then moved--"'That the Report be brought tip and printed," whichi n the a ffi rmative. After which, passed Sir M. W. RIDLEY moved the following Resolution :-- " That the House think. it advieeable to plalge itself to institute en inquiry heat Seeaion iiito how far the interests of Hoglund and Scotland may be affected by different systems of currency, ascertain if any and what swans could h e taken to assimilate the currency of both sountriiia." and to The motion having peen put t o the vote by the Smits:at, ass negatived without a division. CORN LAWS. Mr. HUSKISSON brought up the Amodmepts wade by the Corn. On a question by Sir Jour; Want-mum, The SPEAKER said that all the clause's of the Bill, as passed by this House, had been returned unaltered, with the exception of the clause which had been considered by their Lordships as un intelligible--that clause had, however, been amended and made intelligible, and another chime letd been added to the Bill. The amendments were then read and agreed to. ARMY HALF.PAY. Mr. HUME said he was sorry, at this late hour of the night, to detain the House, but he considered it very important that this subject 'should he submitted to their consideration. He thought the system of admitting Half-pay Officers to sell their commis sions, extremely objectionable, as the expellee entailed upon the public, was by that means made perpetual. The Hon. Gentle man then alluded to a return which stated the number of pro motions which had taken place sines the year 1817 to the pre sent time, and concluded by moving " That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty; praying that he may be graciously pleased to employ in his Army, as vacancies should occur, such persons as are now on half-pay, who are qualified to serve his Majesty, as well as with intent to remove the nation from the burthen at present imposed on them, as to reward those who have served in the late war." Lord PALMERSTON, at this late hour of the night, could not enter into all the topics the Hon. Gentleman had alluded to e but if the Hon. Gentleman had thought no diminution had taken place in the sixpences of the army, he was greatly mistaken. The Gentlemen on the other side of the House were apt to talk of the unconstitutional state of a standing army, and the danger which m i g ht ar i se f ro m it, but the only mode by which that could be guarded against, was to have the army composed of persons im mediately connected with the state of the country, and to havthe e no persons in the army Who were at all at variance with constitution of the country. It had been said on other occa sions, that merit was passed over for the purpose of pro moting those who had nothing to recommend them but mere interest. The fact was, that a junior officer was never allowed to purchase over n superior milers the superior was unable or unwilling to make the purchase, and then there could be no principle of justice which coald operate as a refusal to the junior officers being allowed to purchase. He (Lord Palmerston) thought it would be a very anjust thing if every vacancy was filled up by half-pay Officers, and all the Officers cummanding the vari ous serving regiments excluded from promotion till every half-pay Officer was provided for. If the plan suggested by the Hon. Member was adopted, men would he holding situations in the Army totally unfit for service in consequence of age, infirmities, or family incumbrances. Regiments would have Ensigns of forty or fifty years old, with their wives and ten or twelve children fol lowing the camp, and he would ask the Hon. Member what sort of au appearance such an army would make. Mr. HUME having said a few words in reply, the Motion was negatived without a division. The Report of the Select Committee on Emigration was brought up and laid on the table; after which the House adjourned at One o'Clock to Wednesday next. STATE PAPER. GREAT BRITAIN AND SWEDEN. CONVENTION of COMMERCE and NAVIGATION betwois his MAJZSTY and the King of Swenzie and Noawax,toge ther with an Additional Article thereanto annexed. Signed at London, March 18, 1826. Article 1. The several stipulations contained in the declaration. exchanged between the Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and his Ma jesty the King of Sweden and Norway, on the 24th of April and 16th day of Jely, 1821, shall continue in force between the high contrasting parties, respectively, for the term of the present con vention, and shall be equally binding upon the said papers, their officers and subjects, except as far as the same may be hereinafter varied, as if the saute had been inserted, word for word, in this Convention. 2. British vessels entering or departing from the Ports of the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and Swedish and Norwegian vessels entering or departing, from the ports of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall not be subject to any other or higher ship duties or charges, than are or shall be levied on national „vessels entering or departing from such ports, re spectively. 3. All goods, wares, and merchandise, whether the produc tion of the kingdoms of Sweden um! Norway, or of any other country, which may be legally imported frem any of the ports of the said kingdoms into the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in British vessels, shall, in like maauer, be permitted to be so imported directly in Swedish or Norwegian vessels : and all goods, wares, and merchandise, whether the production of any of the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, or of any other COND. try, which may be legally exported front the ports of the United Kingdom, in British vessels, shall, in like manner, be permitted to be exported from the said ports in Swedish or Norwegian ves sels. An exact reciprocity shall be observed in the ports of Swe den and Norway, so that all goods, wares, and merchandise, whether the production of the United Kingdom, or of any other country, which may be legally imported from the ports of the 'United Kingdom into the port* of Sweden and Norway, in Swot dish or Norwegian verbal*, shall, 'in like manner, be permitted to be so imported from the ports of the United Kingdom in British vessels ; and all goods, wares, and merchandise, whether the pro duction of any of the dominions of his Swedish Majesty, or of any other country, which may be legally exported front the ports of Sweden or Norway, in Swedish or Norwegian vessels, shall, in like manner, be permitted to be exported from the said ports in British vessels. 4. All goods, wares, and merchandise, which can legally be imported into the ports of either country directly from the other, shall, upon such importation, be admitted at the same rate of duty, whether imported in vessels of the one or the other country ; and all goods, warm, and merchandise, which can be legally ex ported from the ports of either country, shall, upon such exporta tion, be liable to the same duties, and be .entitled to the tonne bounties, drawbacks, and allowances, whether exported in vessels of the one or the other.country. b. No priority or preference shall be gnien,- directly or indi rectly, by the Government of either country, or by any com pany, corporation, or agent, acting in its behalf or under its authority, to the purchase of any article of the growth, pro duce, or manufacture of either country, imported into the other, on account of, or in reference to, the character of the vessel in which such article was imported ; it being the true intent and meaning of the High Contracting Parties, that no distinction or difference whatever shall be made in this respect. 6. From and after ahe date of the present Convention, British ships shall be allowed to proceed direct from any port of his Bri tannic Majesty's dominions, to any colony of his Majesty the King of Sweden and .Norway not in Europe, and to import into such colony any good., the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United Kingdom, or of any of the British dominions, not being such goods as arc prohibited to be imported into such colony, or as are admitted only from the dominions of his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway ; and such British. ships, and such goods so imported in them, shall be liable, in such colony of his Ma jesty the King of Sweden and Norway, to no higher or other charger; than would be there payable on Swedish or Norwegian ships importing the like sorts of goods, or payable on the like goods, the growth, produce, or manufacture of any foreign country, al lowed to be imported into the said colony in Swedish or Norwe gian ships. And from and after the same date, Swedish and Nor wegian vowels shall be allowed to proceed direct front any ports of the dominions of his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, to any colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (other than those in the possession of the East India Company), and to import into such colony any goods, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the kingdom s o f Sweden and Norway, or of any of their dominions , not being, such goods as are prohibited to be imported into such colony, or .as are admitted only from the dominions of his Britannic Majesty; and such Swedish and Norwe g i a n e asels, and such goods so imported in them, shall be liable, in such colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (other than those in the possession of the East India Company), to no other or higher charges than would be:there payable on British vessels importing the like sorts of goods, or p a y a bl e ot , t h e like goods, the growth, produce, or manufacture of any foreign country, . allowed to be imported into the said colony in British shipto 7. Front and afte r the date of the present Convention, British ships shall be all owe d to e xport from any colony of his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway , not in Euro p e, say goods not prohibited to be exporttel from such colony ; and such British r l' Uld lia b b e iNin s s h u i e p h s, colo n tly s , 4 to ch n guud o sso other or ez p l o ti r g te b higher i c n • bS t r h g e ea rn' th i a h i al i n l pay able by, and shall be entitled to, the carne drawbacks as would be there allowable on Swedish or Norwegian ships importing such goods. And the like liberty and privileges of exp or t a ti on g n at be reciprocally granted in the British Colonies, (other than those in the possession of the East India Company), to Swedish and Norwegian ships, a nd to goods exported in them. 8. In respect to the commerce to be carried on in vessels of Sweden or Norway with the British Domioions in the East In dies, or now held by the Bat ro ds. comp arty in virtue of their All Lotteries end for ever with this Drawing. Six Prizes £30,000, all in One Day. The price of Tickets and Shares will rise after This Day. COURSE OF EXCH) Amsterdam C.F. 12 7 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. IS 8 Antwerp l2 8 Hartiburgh 2g V. 37 7 Altona 24 U. 37 8 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U: 25 00 Bordeaux .............«........... 25 90 Berlin 7 Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 155 Petcrsburgh, rble - 3 Us. 8 Vienna, effective ft..-- 2 M. 10 Trieste .. do Madrid 35 Cadiz Bilboa 35 Barcelona 35 Seville 35 Gibraltar SI .NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 41g Genoa 4.9% Venice "" Malta. Naples 36% os. 116 Palermo per Lisbon Oporto . 61 6 , 43 n. Rio Janeiro Bahia 41 Buenos Avres ....... Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork NULLION, FEZ 011. t. cl. Portugal Gold, in coin.... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bar 5...... 3 17 6 New Doubloons ............. 0 0 0 New Dollars ......... .. 00 0 Silver, in bars, 0 0 PRICE OF IRISH 1 Bank Stack Gor. Stock, 31 per cent. ll4l 4 r. Ditto, New SS I 4 per Cent. New Gov. .Deb. 31 per cent. Consols, :3 per cent Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 4 City Deb. 4 per cent—. Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent — T N O at C io K na : St. Patrick Insurance......... sg dis. Royal Irish Ditto .................. -- Patriotic Ditto ...................... -- Hibernian Bunk ................... -- Provincial Ditto ................... -- Royal Irish Mine .................. Imperial Mine ......... ..... .... .... «. Imperial , Fish Shares .................... .. ..... -- , 1 New Brighton .... 'IIMttoA.IY.. .......... .......... .... .••••••••••• _.‘ MA Arrived. Due. I Dublin I Waterford 0 O Guernsey &Jersey 0 O Lisbon 0 O Gottenburgh ...... O Hamburgh O Holland 0 O France . LS. Arrived. Pile , O Flanders .....•••••••"' 0 O Jamaica . .. • O Leeward Islands ... 0 O Malta .............. I • America. .............. O Brasil ..• ............... O Buenos Ayres ...... 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGZ TO-MORROW: 9J minute+ 7. Morning...—. 3 minutes after '7. Evening Übtflb LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1626. It will be observed 1.7...--y our Parliamentary Hers, that both Houses of Parliament met last n ight, and that n their attention was occupied with an extra ordinary number of subjects, many of which were of the most interesting tli7H n o a use ture. of Peers, the Earl of DARNI3I' after alluding to what had passed On a previous even i wie ng vteh , ry relittive to the declared neutrality of France with brceoesEeeue.tantoothftehteGheGreFreeksreeknscan,hridtaGtteohdveet Government, re l ks i: t: bel ieved that the e po sb rts ..i . ps o a f n F d r m an u ce nit t i o ons th o e f from Tnthe their y, conduct in regard to the Swalsaasvte°("lf'tirafil'ec::: under the occasional convoy of. French Corvetto' His Lordship then moved for copies of all commtwi' cations from his Majesty's Consul* Marseilles, relP The Earl of LIVERPOOL necessarily tine to supplies sent from that port to the Pacha. nations ; and as' establishing. a disastrouswhich could do nu good, motion,_ as interfering with the prerogattve of thd JUNO, to whom it belongs exclusively too egulate the conduct of the country with regard Wigerent there cannot Pwaarchaw c o r f e E despatchedg , 1 results. In allusion, however, to the conduct of the French Government in regard to the Slave Trade, Lord LIVERPOOL stated, that he thought nothing could be more abominable. On this subjec t selves in possession of some facts illustrative of the ii conduct of -France, in flagrant violation of . the and`f'l'ue conduct of the Treaty relative to the Slave Trade: we shall, at an early period, expose them forl3'' losti In the House of Commons, Lord riiri, RussaLL's Resolutions _goo the subject 01 ,'',., bery and Corruption at Elections, . were earrien,,."l.7, side. The objection' urged the casting voice of the SPEAKER, the Nol":11 on the 13; -vision having been eixty-tvre on r io . lutions were not so much against their prine i P i tDe the time at which they were hronght fortian,4l ss decision . of the House in favour of the itss au rcister urination moment, will show that a proper and inanj c o exists in Parliament to revel% b y ort, means in its power, all practices of a corrOP,t t o t o f not only on the part of Electors in the elb erg y their privileges, but also on the .per of those 'who .0, seek to obtain a seat in the British House of Comr,o4, . Mr. PEEL presented the Report of the Select v;i tic h mittee on the Banking System of Scotland, if we be twoBnopdiarnioingi: le\avde atoll., mo ousrt.. against these Its 0 gave rise to a very long anti animated disenssil phi conclusively oilyawithouttnecessary, cannot to-day enter upon this subject Wil t T , observing, that we consider the remarks Issu e ''' r j to TtEßwitv on the conduct of Ministers in re° mal t the question of Scotch Currency, to hoc he e i n c i,reil that however much it might be desirable ;whir r-Lid, ee ahn s sew(eu t r h era :e enb m cyy os ili t :lr. PK° 6rieg- iPli tth w oo . h so ad e ss n o lu i i n tel t : was ascertained that e considered that it would - have been ill ll3° ,: l eeit ab circulation of Scotland was in small n otes. D "elveri were absolutely incompatible, therefore,ttho arc: r e t w ai o si l l :r e :ad meat, whether the :Metallic ,Currency of irgot. the m la: . t had e a r. as l could not co-exist with the Paper Curtail ' ste no and.. If it should be found that the tvo 1,,,1i5il . ' •„g 11 13t ' to the system vacancies__ in the Army might be filled or 41, 1 ,0 0 # s tialf Pay List, was negatived, after Lord I l'_„ s , TONsatisfactorily answered the runterouristive se rtions which the Hon. Member bad haorded r/.1001 dangero:sPipwreeledetdel: adjourned till Wednesday. -..tael l• s fpinroo' i on tiofir ila itvvd nti hnsasto e e g then Address,tantihr ° r i d I'll l t 119 ) 8 ,ftn.c (°11)(1 fp r t iler‘ 3 1 , b 1 if.)eq If e c 1:( .: _ rti ; 1 ~: ':s1:!: 0 We have inserted in another Column , ail Svf deo tion of Commerce and Navigation bew and Norway ; but sp ace will not admit of oil 'l°l'l4 any observations on it to-day. 1 10 th We have received New York Pape" t° • Or „opt instant, but they do not conta in any in'Pv--• 0------ - —.401111..---rse c l We lied the pleasure to a nnounce in our or s. • rib yesterday, the fall of the important fortress °f i i i or t Pore/ and we gave in detail the official accounti to to operations of the Army before that place/ up 31st December. 0 1 0 0 I°l° The despatch announcing the 010 , il the storming on the 18th january, doOs'11°S.:c°11110 / p the particulars of the lose sustsineds' 0 4 'raj° ;once.